William Faulkner Quotes

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

William Faulkner

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• A sexy shoe is one that men like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Men
  • Sexy
  • Shoe

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• Given the results of the government's War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, we can assume that a War on Abortion will lead within five years to men having abortions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Men
  • War
  • Poverty

• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Alone

• We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

  

  Laurent Fabius
  • Wish
  • Model

• I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God
  • Believe

• I charged Mr. Pitt with having come into office upon unconstitutional grounds, and upon such principles as were disgraceful to himself, disgusting to the country, and such as must necessarily deprive him and his coadjutors of the confidence of that House.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Country
  • House
  • Confidence

• Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Die

• If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense (answer) to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only. (33) tr. George Long (1888).

  

  Epictetus
  • Long
  • Rest

• You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Character

• I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Community
  • Serious
  • Effort

• The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • English
  • Differences
  • German

• Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Grief

• Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • True
  • Pain

• My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I'm doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations - only a journey which we all share together.

  

  Amber Giles
  • Journey
  • Doing
  • Expression

• There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Grief
  • Sorrow
  • Existed